svn commit: r42870 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Mon Oct 7 10:16:33 UTC 2013

Author: pgj
Date: Mon Oct  7 10:16:32 2013
New Revision: 42870
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/42870

Log:
  - Add Q3 report on progress of random(4)
  
  Submitted by:	markm

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-07-2013-09.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-07-2013-09.xml
==============================================================================

--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-07-2013-09.xml	Mon Oct  7 10:10:19 2013	(r42869)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-07-2013-09.xml	Mon Oct  7 10:16:32 2013	(r42870)
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
     <!-- XXX: keep updating the number of entries -->
     <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work!  This report
-      contains 18 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
+      contains 19 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
 
     <!-- XXX: set date for the next set of submissions -->
     <p>The deadline for submissions covering between October and
@@ -938,4 +938,47 @@
 	set.</p>
     </body>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='kern'>
+    <title>Updating <tt>random(4)</tt></title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Mark</given>
+	  <common>Murray</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>markm at freebsd.org</email>
+      </person>
+
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Arthur</given>
+	  <common>Mesh</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>arthurmesh at gmail.com</email>
+      </person>
+
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Dag-Erling</given>
+	  <common>Smørgrav</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>des at freebsd.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>Update of <tt>random(4)</tt> to account for recent revelations,
+	and make more extensible, is in progress.</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>Fortuna is to be an alternative for Yarrow in FreeBSD 11.x.</task>
+      <task>Yarrow may be deprecated in a couple of years.</task>
+      <task>FIPS 800-90b support is planned.</task>
+      <task>A full, in-depth review of entropy is going to be done with
+	external help.</task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
 </report>
